{"id":27500,"date":"2016-06-01T14:11:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T21:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/?p=27500"},"modified":"2018-08-31T09:49:48","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T16:49:48","slug":"california-church-commits-praying-for-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/christian-faith-news-stories\/california-church-commits-praying-for-refugees","title":{"rendered":"A California church commits to praying for refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Nearly a decade ago, Doug Lee and Joyce West represented the congregation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gfccsf.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grace Fellowship Community Church <\/a>and traveled from their San Francisco homes to see the work of a ministry partner in his native Nigeria. The trip came soon after the passing of the California church&rsquo;s pastor.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We were met by hundreds of widows. They heard about our pain and suffering in the illness and death of our pastor, and they had been gathering to pray &mdash; for us &mdash; every day,&rdquo; says Joyce, who leads the church&rsquo;s global ministries.<\/p>\n<p>The women had few possessions and little money but traveled long distances to meet for prayer.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I just had this overwhelming sense of how hollow I was in seeing how they were living out their faith,&rdquo; says Doug, an associate pastor. &ldquo;I had this longing for us as a congregation to have thick faith and not just assume that all of our comforts and privileges meant that we were doing well.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The experience challenged the team to intentionally and regularly lift others up in prayer.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"pullquote pullquote--inset\">We&rsquo;re participating in something we don&rsquo;t have a solution for. It&rsquo;s really an act of trust that God is big enough to care for these things.<cite class=\"attribution\">&mdash;Doug Lee<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;Persevering in prayer on behalf of folks is a gift that we have received and that we can offer,&rdquo; Joyce says. The congregation of about 200 people began to consider what God may have them care about.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We needed to grow in humility, and that really meant coming before him and asking him to tell us what we need instead of deciding that we knew what to do,&rdquo; Joyce says.<\/p>\n<p>Several partnerships grew out of that period of prayer, and about three years ago they began to feel a burden for <a href=\"\/refugees-news-stories\/syrian-refugee-crisis-facts\">Syrian refugees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s so much in Scripture that is so specific about Syria,&rdquo; Doug says. &ldquo;Every time Scripture names <a href=\"\/our-work\/country-profiles\/syria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Syria<\/a>, it&rsquo;s just a reminder that God has cared about this part of the world for a long time and continues to care about it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In the last three years, the church has raised $20,000 for World Vision&rsquo;s work with Syrian refugees, but they also pray together weekly for an hour. 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